Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Grocer John Baguilais forbade neighborhood urchins to enter his store on roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
...collar. Flesh like canned tomatoes with the seeds in it, changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed spectacles, mal-fitting collar, hunched shoulders. Looks overheated, corrugated, modest and oafish. A country-store type...
...Peru, Ill. school board, a dealer in industrial diamonds, an insurance salesman, a young bookbinder, an unemployed telephone engineer, an automobile dealer, a coal salesman, a dairy farmer, the mayor of Millington, Ill., an employe of a grain and lumber company, an unemployed salesman of office supplies, a grocer. Two were in their 50's, six were in their 40's, two in their 30's, two in their 20's. They were a fairly representative cross-section of the middle class of U. S. business. Sitting in judgment on 17 representatives of the upper class...
William Lever was the seventh child but first son of a Bolton wholesale grocer. He soon tired of gigging about the countryside selling groceries, decided to go into soap. Unlike Harley Procter who had a soap before he had a name,* William Lever had a registered name (Sunlight) before he had the soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm...
...first quartet, which she hired to play in her home. Within 15 months she lost her mother, her father and her husband. Dr. Frederick Shurtleff Coolidge, Chicago surgeon, who in 1904 settled in Pittsfield for his health. Her father had been Albert Arnold Sprague of Chicago, a wealthy wholesale grocer who had indulged his daughter's desire to study the piano and compose. Her house quartet gave her the greatest satisfaction she had ever known. She chose its programs, watched always for undiscovered talent. Often she, too, played with a remote, wooden touch which revealed her increasing deafness...